Top 1200 Common Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their knowledge! What must be the wisdom of Him, from whom all things derive their wisdom!

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.

Stephen Miller did one thing: He simply recited common sense. This is a common sense immigration bill. If there was ever a piece of common sense legislation, this is it. In this case, what Stephen Miller did was nothing more than common sense, and yet it was interpreted - it went right over their heads, the White House press corps, not just Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush. It went over all of their heads because they didn't understand what he was talking about, either because of the fog of hatred they have for Donald Trump and his administration, or they are just ignorant.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That's not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.